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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
252 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 13
George Battersby was charged with destroying the log-book and slate, the property of Captain Ward, on the 13th instant. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and expressed his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hassan Bradstreet, a young man of respectable appearance, was charged with having, at Sydney, on the 24th of September last, by false pretence that he could foretell future events,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One drunkard was fined 10s., or forty-eight hours in the lock-up. DESERTION. James Brown was charged with deserting from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When the hearing of the case was going on, hundreds of people crowded the court and around the court, and the excitement beggers all description. The inquest before H. Hayes,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the case Spear and Bond v. Hell being called on, Mr. Brown, an articled clerk in Mr. Chambers's office, applied to be allowed to appear on behalf of Mr. Chambers, who was employed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joseph Heappy, John Quye, Austin Thynne, Thomas Hobbs, aud Richard Douglass, were indicted for that they, at the North Shore, on the 15th day of September last, did…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two inebriates were brought up on the charge of being drunk. One was fined 10s. or seven days in gaol, and the other, 5s. or the usual alternative in the lock-up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mary Anne King, convicted of unlawfully wounding, was brought up for sentence. There were ten "previous convictions" against the prisoner for vagrancy and drunkenness, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sarah Ashman, a widow, well advanced in life, was charged with illegally and obscenely exposing her person within view of a public thoroughfare, at New Lambton, on the 12th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James M'Donald was charged with stealing a saw, the property of Dugald Dobic, at Newcastle, on the 21st instant. The same defendant was further charged by the same complainant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of this case was resumed and concluded. It was an action, tried before Sir Alfred Stephen, and a jury of four, and instituted by the Oriental Bank Corporation against Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One drunkard (a female) was fined lOs., or the usual alternative in tho lockup. WIFE DESERTION. John Smith was charged with deserting his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an application (tried before their Honors Sir Alfred Stephen, C.J., Mr. Justice Hargrave, and Mr. Justice Cheeke) upon rule nisi for a writ of mandamus directed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This Court opens on Monday next, at ten o'clock. The following is a list of the causes set down, for hearing:— Boyce and Co. v. Blackiston, commission on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Annie De Martini, who had been summoned to answer the charge of using obscene language in the hearing of persons passing in Wolfe-street, was called, but did not appear, nor any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →J. D. Nelson appeared on summons to answer the complaint of Jane Smith for non-payment of £3 l6s. 6d,, for wages due to her as a domestic servant. The debt was not denied, and an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thomas Wade, charged with using obscene language on the 14th ultimo, was fined 20s., or fourteen days ia Maitland gaol.DRUNKENNESS…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly after ten o clock his Honor took his seat on the Bench, and observed that he had been detained by illness from getting up to Newcastle on the day before. Such a thing had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday evening, the residents in the neighbourhood of 'Woolloomooloo were startled by the intelligence that a lodger had cut the throat of the wife of the man in whose house he had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charles Myall, John Bicklon, and William Fee, charged with boing absent without leave from the barque William Ackers, on the 4th instant, were ordered to be sent on board…
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